While Australia faces complex prickly national security challenges, our Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers continue to paradoxically announce quick fix policy measures in response to terrorism and crime. From cement bollards in Sydney and …
The Beat America and guns: it’s complicated A comprehensive, 79-page publication from the Pew Research Centre aims to quantify ‘America’s complex relationship with guns’ (PDF). The highlights include findings that 30% of American adults own …
10 years ago, al-Qaeda (AQ) was in shambles. Thanks to American and Pakistani-led operations, they had no training camps, limited money and few adherents. They also faced increasing challenges to their position as the inspirational …
The Beat When gun research is silenced Gun science silence is a tongue-twister, but that’s no reason to keep quiet about it, Harvard Professor David Hemenway argues in Nature. While Research on gun-related violence can …
ADF ‘call out’ was a headline issue from the coronial inquest into the Lindt café siege. Counsel assisting the coroner raised it during hearings in May last year, speculating that ADF special forces might have …